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Today I'm showing you some sketchbook pages from a recent project I've done based on Peru. Colour, texture, and graphics's is the fundamental base to this project - oozing innovative techniques and unusual references.

I started to look at primary images collected from Peru, women's outfits, craft, textiles and surrounding environments. This has influenced my idea of colour and the juxtaposition of fabrics.

Silhouette and print research.

Contrasting effects of print and texture.

Further research and development - MORE ILLUSTRATIONS!

Day to day life.

I started to use techniques such as making silicone fabrics by melting plastics and moulding them into exciting, unusual shapes.

My mini collection of Peruvian garments is now complete, a post will be coming soon showing modern plastics in all its glory!

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Turkish Overload

September 2013 I made my annual pilgrimage to work for London based designer Bora Aksu, I've worked for Bora and the team for numerous seasons and its such an honour to work for such an established label which has such a premier position at LFW.

The collection was based on his childhood and his memories of holidays on the calming Aegean coast (Turkey). The collection was rich in detail with delicate knitting, hand crochet, silk painting, and contrasting fabrics, all which resembled Turkey and more about Aksu.

Rich in Details and colour...

My friend and I decided that we should try Turkey and see the richness of detail and art ourselves. We recently just got back and we have pictures to share! 

As I mentioned previously I illustrate a lot, and holidays are no exception - below are illustrations and places which we found inspiring. 

 Putting prints into practise!                              

After buying lots of traditional Turkish fabrics/textiles I started to use the prints as a starting to point to generate ideas for new, innovative prints and ideas for how these can be put into practise.

Turkish Trousers - Daniel Moore

Shoes - Nike

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